Saturday, March 06, 2010

NEW WORKS BY MICHAEL PLATT

DC artist Michael Platt is widely recognized for his fusion of digital and conventional photography, drawing, and printmaking as a means to explore/expose the human condition - in particular, the history and experiences of African and African Diaspora culture.

Platt has recieved numerous grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and received the Mayor's Art Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts in 1999. He has public collections in many renowned institutions, including Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, David C. Driskell Center at the University of Maryland, Yale University Art Gallery, Hampton University Museum, and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. In Abandoned Places, an exhibit of new works by the artist, runs through March 20.